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Cities and Governance: Coming to Terms with Climate Challenges

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Climate Change Governance

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If cities are to meet the challenges of climate change, effective solutions must be anchored in an empowered city governance approach. Empowered city governance depends on building effective decision-making in this volatile policy field, in developing evidence-based policy-making, and in building strong city governments capable of performing as new sites of governance in global negotiations on climate change. The objectives of this paper are twofold: first, to map the core risks for cities associated with climate change; second, as a governance response, to build a more informed set of planning norms and practices, more effective infrastructure investment and urban management, and a more inclusive urban governance.

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    Interview and case study material gathered from the City of Bogota—Finance Secretary 2009.

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    Interview and case study material gathered from the City of Sao Paulo 2009.

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    Patricia McCarney

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    Walter Leal Filho

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McCarney, P. (2013). Cities and Governance: Coming to Terms with Climate Challenges. In: Knieling, J., Leal Filho, W. (eds) Climate Change Governance. Climate Change Management. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-29831-8_6

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